Consumer groups demand feds overturn CRTC decision on prepaid wireless service cards

ELLIOT LAKE, ON – The DiversityCanada Foundation wants the Governor in Council to quash a section of the Wireless Code of Conduct regarding prepaid wireless service cards, after the CRTC declined to do so.The Foundation and the National Pensioners Federation submitted a joint petition Monday seeking to overturn a provision in the Code that they say “permits Bell, Rogers, Telus and other wireless providers to place expiry dates on cash held in the accounts of 3.7 million prepaid wireless consumers”. The petition claims that the CRTC breached its duty of procedural fairness by ignoring evidence that prepaid wireless accounts hold cash,...